Historic Bohemians-Palestine match ‘a show of solidarity in the face of an increasingly hopeless situation in Gaza’

, Daniel Lambert pulls out his phone to reveal the mural of a Palestinian woman in traditional headscarf that now exists under the television gantry at Dalymount Park.On Wednesday evening about 4,500 fans at Dalymount will witness the first ever football match featuring a senior Palestinian national side on European soil. Bohemian FC, led by goalkeeper Rachael Kelly, provide the opposition at the Dublin venue.

Organising such a unique fixture required plenty of external assistance, like the fast-tracking of visas for the 35-strong delegation that was led into Dublin on Sunday by Jibril Rajoub, the head both of Palestine’s football association and its Olympic committee.the current conflict ”Hopefully this occasion makes all that accessible,” says Lambert. “We have chatted to the Palestinians and heard the trauma they are going through. Imagine Cork, Limerick and Kerry were being bombed every day, how would that affect you and me?”

“We’ve never harnessed that as a nation, never used it diplomatically. The Norwegians are far better at doing it than we are. “We have seen the total dehumanisation of Palestinians. That’s what this match will show: that their position is hopeless and all we can do is show them solidarity.”

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